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Publication Bourguignat (1880): summary
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Complete Citation

Bourguignat, J.R. 1880. Matériaux historiques sur les mollusques acephales du système Européen. Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 1-96. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Aetheria Oken, 1818
Oken, 1818. Isis (Oken) 1818: 1117.
Sowerby, 1825. Zool. Jour. 1: 518.
Berthold in Latreille, 1827. unknown publication: 208.
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 38 [as ‘Ætheria].
Menke, 1828. Syn. Method. Moll.: 65.
Herrmannsen, 1846. Ind. Gener. Malacol. 1: 22.
Agassiz, 1846. Nomencl. Zool. Index Univ.: 10.
Adams & Adams, 1857. Gen. Rec. Moll. 2(31-32): 509.
Woodward, 1871. Man. Moll: 435.
Bourguignat, 1880. Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 53.
Zittel, 1881. Handb. Palaeo. 1: 58.
Westerlund, 1902. Rad. Jugoslav. Akad. 150: 138.
(new name for Etheria Lamarck, 1807)

Caillaudiana Bourguignat, 1880
Bourguignat, 1880. Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 63.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Etheria Lamarck, 1807)
Type species: Aetheria cailliaudi Férussac, 1824 (monotypy) = Etheria elliptica

Chambardia Servain, 1890
Bourguignat, 1880. Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 4. [nomen nudum]
Bourguignat in Servain, 1890. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 7: 304.
Type species: Chambardia letourneuxi Servain, 1890 (sub. desig. by Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927: 413) = Chambardia letourneuxi

Chambardiana Bourguignat, 1880
Bourguignat, 1880. Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 69.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Etheria Lamarck, 1807)
Type species: Aetheria chambardi Bourguignat, 1880 (monotypy) = Etheria elliptica

Colletopterum Bourguignat, 1880
Bourguignat, 1880. Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 73, 4.
Type species: Anodonta letourneuxi Bourguignat, 1870 (sub. desig. by Simpson, 1900: 649) = Anodonta anatina

Letourneuxiana Bourguignat, 1880
Bourguignat, 1880. Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 69.
Type species: Aetheria petrettinii Bourguignat, 1880 (sub. desig. by Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927: 448) = Etheria elliptica

Niloticiana Bourguignat, 1880
Bourguignat, 1880. Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 65.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Etheria Lamarck, 1807)
Type species: Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807 (sub. desig. by Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927: 448) = Etheria elliptica

Pharaonia Jousseaume, 1886
Bourguignat, 1880. Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 3 [nomen nudum].
Jousseaume, 1886. Bull. Soc. Zool. France 11: 486.
Bourguignat, 1888. Iconogr. Malac. Lac Tanganika: 47, pl. 21.
Bourguignat, 1889. Moll. Afrique Équatoriale: 191.
Type species: Pharaonia bellamyi Jousseaume, 1886 (sub. desig. by Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927: 399) = Coelatura aegyptiaca

Pseudanodonta Bourguignat, 1876
Bourguignat, 1876. Bull. Soc. Sci. Phys. Nat. Toulouse 3: 99.
Bourguignat, 1880. Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 11, 3.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Pseudodon Gould, 1844)
Type species: Anodonta complanata Rossmässler, 1835 (sub. desig. by Westerlund, 1902: 137) = Pseudanodonta complanata

Attributed Nominal Species

There are 21 available nominal species attributed to this publication (34 total).
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Taxonomic Opinions

Anodonta apollonica = Anodonta anatina

Anodonta gallandi = Anodonta anatina

Anodonta taurica = Anodonta anatina

Ætheria (Caillaudiana) caillaudi [sic] Férussac, 1823 = Etheria elliptica

Ætheria (Chambardiana) chambardi = Etheria elliptica

Ætheria (Letourneuxiana) carteroni Michelin, 1830 = Etheria elliptica

Ætheria (Letourneuxiana) letourneuxi = Etheria elliptica

Ætheria (Letourneuxiana) petrettinii = Etheria elliptica

Ætheria (Letourneuxiana) semilunata (Lamarck, 1807) = Etheria elliptica
+ Etheria plumbea Férussac, 1824

Ætheria (Letourneuxiana) transversa (Lamarck, 1807) = Etheria elliptica
+ Etheria plumbea Férussac, 1824

Ætheria (Niloticiana) elliptica (Lamarck, 1807) = Etheria elliptica
+ Etheria trigonula Lamarck, 1807
+ Etheria semilunata Sowerby & Sowerby, 1821
+ Etheria lamarckii Férussac, 1824

Ætheria (Niloticiana) nilotica Letourneux, mss. = Etheria elliptica
+ Aetheria caillaudi [sic] var. elongata Bourguignat, 1880

Ætheria (Niloticiana) senegalica = Etheria elliptica

Ætheria (Niloticiana) tubifera (Sowerby, 1825) = Etheria elliptica
+ Aetheria caillaudi [sic] var. rotundata Bourguignat, 1880

Colletopterum eximium = Anodonta anatina

Colletopterum letourneuxi = Anodonta anatina

Colletopterum præclarum = Anodonta anatina

Colletopterum tanousi = Anodonta anatina

Leguminaia bonellii = Microcondylaea bonellii

Leguminaia curvata (Rossmässler, 1842) = Microcondylaea bonellii

Leguminaia mardiniensis [sic] = Leguminaia wheatleyi

Leguminaia michoni = Leguminaia saulcyi

Leguminaia saulcyi

Leguminaia tripolitana = Leguminaia saulcyi

Pseudanodonta berlani (Bourguignat, 1870) = Pseudanodonta complanata

Pseudanodonta complanata (Ziegler in Rossmässler, 1835)

Pseudanodonta danubialis = Pseudanodonta complanata

Pseudanodonta ellipsiformis = Pseudanodonta complanata

Pseudanodonta elongata (Holandre, 1836) = Pseudanodonta complanata
+ Anodonta jobae Dupuy, 1849

Pseudanodonta grateloupiana [sic] (Gassies, 1849) = Pseudanodonta complanata

Pseudanodonta klettii (Rossmässler, 1835) = Pseudanodonta complanata
+ Anodonta rhomboidea Schlüter, 1838

Pseudanodonta letourneuxi = Pseudanodonta complanata

Pseudanodonta ligerica Servain = Pseudanodonta complanata

Pseudanodonta mecyna Letourneux = Pseudanodonta complanata

Pseudanodonta nordenskiöldi = Pseudanodonta complanata
+ Anodonta complanata Nordenskiold & Nylander, 1856

Pseudanodonta normandi (Dupuy, 1849) = Pseudanodonta complanata

Pseudanodonta pancici Letourneux = Pseudanodonta complanata

Pseudanodonta penchinati (Bourguignat, 1870) = Pseudanodonta complanata

Pseudanodonta præclara Letourneux = Pseudanodonta complanata

Pseudanodonta rayi Mabille = Pseudanodonta complanata

Pseudanodonta rossmässleri = Pseudanodonta complanata
+ Anodonta complanata Rossmässler, 1836

Pseudanodonta scrupea = Pseudanodonta complanata

Pseudanodonta tanousi Letourneux = Pseudanodonta complanata

Pseudodon babylonicus = Pseudodontopsis euphratica

Pseudodon churchillianus = Pseudodontopsis euphratica

Pseudodon opperti = Pseudodontopsis euphratica

Pseudodon pachyolenus = Pseudodontopsis euphratica

Pseudodon piestius = Pseudodontopsis euphratica

Pseudodon rhomboideus = Pseudodontopsis euphratica

 
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